Press releases

Two companies listed their shares on BVB last month: Transilvania Broker de Asigurare and Sphera Franchise Group

Two issuances of bonds started trading in November: Investia Finance and Bittnet Systems

BET index maintains a growth of 10 percent, BET-TR – which includes the dividends – goes up by 20 percent, BET-FI surges by 30 percent

Lucian Anghel, BVB: The local stock exchange now counts 88 issuers, after five companies listed their shares on the Main Market in the past 12 months, a performance in the history of the stock exchange. We hope the listings will continue in 2018

Mark Hilton, SFG: We are pleased to join the roster of important companies trading on this exchange and proud that we are the first brand from the foodservice sector to list in Romania

Lucian Anghel, BVB: It is the largest listing of equities on the stock market in the second half this year. The local capital market can absorb significant transactions, and witnesses one of the most active listing periods in its history

Alin Barbu, BVB: Listing on the stock exchange is no longer a sporadic phenomenon in the Romanian capital market

Dan Niculae, General Manager Transilvania Broker: We target a market share of at least 10 percent in the next couple of years, expect turnover, revenues and profit margins to go up in the next 3 to 5 years

Virgil Zahan, CEO Goldring: The success of the offer confirms investors have strong appetite for new listings, as well as their level trust in the future of the capital market

Lucian Anghel, BVB Chairman: Four Romanian entrepreneurial companies from different fields have been listed on BVB in less than a year, and each company operates in a field that is represented for the first time on the Romanian stock exchange

Catalin Striblea, journalist: A book like a movie. It's the story of ordinary people who decided at some point to change something in their lives. They have learned that life and money can give you much more if you try and you dare.

Ludwik Sobolewski, CEO BVB: We have examples of stock listings, bond issuances, investor experiences. All we have to do from now on is to follow these examples. Besides money or time, being an investor is a state of mind.

Lucian Anghel, BVB President: The 10 investors are an example for millions of Romanians who can become active investors at any time if they want so.

In the July phase of the competition, Vasile Gabrian (36), employed in the public sector and client of Tradeville from Pitesti, won a 3 days city break worth EUR 1,000, offered by Paravion. The winner of the second prize, a Fitbit smartwatch, is Marin Andreica (66), a PhD Professor at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies and a client of Rombell Securities.

Renaissance Capital: A greater number of investors compared to two years ago are now aware of the market and trade Romania. We have also seen increased interest from our clients in getting educated about Romania

Berenberg: The share price performance of Romanian listed companies has been outstanding, as witnessed by the MSCI’s Romania Total Return index which jumped more than 150% over the last 5 years in USD terms

Shares of Romradiatoare (RRD), a leading Romanian company specialized in designing and manufacturing heat exchangers, cooling systems and metal components for a broad range of applications, start trading on the AeRO market of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) as of August 8, 2017. Romradiatoare is 76.5% controlled by SIF Transilvania, while a 16.5% stake belongs to the Romanian football coach Mircea Lucescu.

Corporate bonds issued by UniCredit Bank SA, member of the UniCredit Group, one of Romania’s largets banks in terms of assets, started trading on Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) as of August 7, 2017. The issue of corporate bonds is worth a total of RON 610 million.

Globalworth Real Estate Investment Limited, one of the most important real estate investment companies, focused on the CEE region, in partnership with BT Capital Partners – a company of Banca Transilvania Financial Group, announces the admission to trading on the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) of the corporate bonds issued by the company (symbol GWI22). The corporate bonds issue had a total value of EUR 550 million and is the largest issue of this type in the history of BVB.

Patria Bank shares, a credit institution that operates on the Romanian banking sector, are traded under a new symbol on the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) market, following the successful merger with Banca Comerciala Carpatica. The old trading symbol ‘BCC’ becomes ‘PBK’ as of today, July 13th. Patria Bank shares are traded on the Bucharest Stock Exchange main market, in the Premium category and are part of the BETPlus index.

Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) informs that the company holds a Legal Entity Identifier Code (LEI code), as part of the process of alignment with the requirements imposed on financial market participants by the most recent European package of measures (MAD/MAR and MIFID II/MIFIR), applicable also to the issuers of financial instruments.

Gheorghe Tutuianu from Bucharest won, for the second month in a row, prize in Leii BVB, a Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) led-project, organized in order to engage and reward individual investors who are actively trading on BVB.

Following the publishing of the second edition of the Whitebook on Communication of Listed Companies,Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) releases Guidebook on Best Practices in IR Communication, a document which will help current and prospective issuers in the process of improving their investor relations activities.

Gabor Molnar, CEO AAGES: The listing was an exam. Our company has reached maturity, and our place is on the stock market

Ludwik Sobolewski, CEO BVB: „Made in Romania” is a phenomenon that shows that Romanian businesses have the ability to create quality products and services that can gain more value and recognition through the capital market

Lucian Anghel, BVB President: The development of the local capital market is driven by the three entrepreneurial companies that continued to develop their success stories by getting listed on the stock exchange in the past six months. I'm confident the examples will continue, and other successful entrepreneurs will follow suit and list their businesses on BVB

Dan Groza from Cluj-Napoca wins for the second time the first prize in the competition Leii BVB - a 3-day city break to London, Milan or Prague, offered by Paravion. The second place was taken by Gheorghe Tutuianu who won a Fitbit smartwatch, offered by Fitbit and iStyle Retail.

BVB expands to 13 the number of companies from its main index, includes DIGI in BET index

Lucian Anghel, BVB President: DIGI was the largest private IPO from the history of the Romanian capital market, and the Index Committee decided to include this issuer in the main index of the stock exchange

Ludwik Sobolewski, BVB CEO: Using the most up to date infrastructure we have already built, opportunities now present themselves at speeds and numbers like never witnessed before

Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) launches APPLY BVB, a free online application for those interested in BVB’s activity as a listed company. The application is a tool that brings a new quality to investor relations. It gives immediate access to the latest BVB financial results, stock prices, news for investors, analysts' reports and press releases. In addition, APPLY BVB includes details about the strategy, business model and governance system. Investors can choose to include in the calendar next financial events and to receive alerts about news, events, and results.

Vlad Adrian Istrate, a 24-year-old investor from Bucharest, took first place in the virtual trading competition, Invest Quest, organized by the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) and the Rotary International District 2241 Romania and the Republic of Moldova and won RON 5,000 prize, offered by the Rotary Club. The Invest Quest competition was part of a broader project developed by the two institutions for promoting education in areas such as the economy, financial investments and entrepreneurship through training programs addressed, but not limited, to the young people.

The market value of the Romanian companies listed on the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) exceeded EUR 20 billion this week, after DIGI Communications (DIGI), important supplier of telecom services in Romania and Hungary, had been listed. The market capitalization of Romanian companies amount to EUR 20.4 billion, the highest level in the last 9 years.

”Romania has left the shallow waters of low valuations and embarked onto a blue water boat capable to use strong winds in our favor and to withstand tough conditions. Romania is on the radar of investors as it offers a level of growth and stability which is rare in today's world, coupled with dynamism and creativity - becoming a friendlier place to do business than ever before. The entrepreneurial companies with national or regional ambitions now see the stock exchange as a natural habitat for their business," said Ludwik Sobolewski, CEO of BVB

"The macroeconomic data, the level of dividends and the growth coming from the share prices are strong arguments for Romania to be the best destination where money can produce added value, while this momentum is building up strength to persuade even the most skeptical investors to place their money on the local capital market. At this value, the market capitalization of domestic listed companies on BVB is around 12% of Romania's GDP", said Lucian Anghel BVB's President

Shares of DIGI Communications, symbol (DIGI), important supplier of telecommunication services in Romania and Hungary, started trading on the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) on May 16, 2017, following the successful closing of the largest IPO of a private company concluded on the Romanian capital market.

Gabriel Oanea from Suceava is the winner of the April draw of Leii BVB competition organized by the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB). Gabriel Oanea won a one week safari trip to Kenya, offered by Paravion. The second place was taken by Aurel Man from Targu Mures who won a Fitbit smartwatch, offered by iStyle Retail.

Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) publishes the second edition of the Whitebook on Communication of Listed Companies, an assessment carried out with a purpose of evaluating the quality and accuracy of information provided to the investors by the issuers listed on BVB’s Main Market.

Romania is taking the first steps towards a National Investment Day. It takes a national project to promote Romania in Europe

Lucian Anghel, BVB President:

On the National Investment Day, we encourage people to get directly in touch with the specialists from all the areas of the financial markets and, once they acquire relevant information, to make their first investment for a better financial future

"Romania Investors Day": over 30 global frontier and emerging markets funds gathered at yearly conference in New York City on the 19th of April,

13 Romanian companies in meetings with investors,

Ludwik Sobolewski, BVB CEO: "Romanian capital market in recent years is a captivating story, which accelerates as we are building up premises for the historical upgrade of its international status",

Lucian Anghel, BVB Chairman of the Board: "Romania has made a giant step when implementing a profound market reform and as a consequence it was included on FTSE Russell’s Emerging Markets Watchlist. The entire local capital market and the country does and will largely benefit from this process",

BVB representatives in talks with the teams of FTSE Russell and S&P Dow Jones Indices in New York, two renowned institutions for the countries and markets classifications and global indexes composition.

The largest trade was worth dozens of thousands of RON, the smallest was just RON 1

The trades carried out this month can be registered until May 1st using www.leiibvb.ro; the prize awarded in May will be the biggest in the competition: a 6-night safari worth EUR 3,000 in Kenya, land of the lions

The producer of cardboards and paperboards Vrancart has decided to use the capital market to attract new financing to develop its activity and has attracted RON 38.25 million from the Bucharest Stock Exchange following the first issuance of bonds, which will debut trading on April 18th.

The Ordinary and Extraordinary Shareholders Meetings of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB), on the 12th of April, took several decisions, based on the proposals of the company’s Board and the Executive Team, which have a strategic dimension for the Romanian capital market.

Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) together with the Rotary International District 2241 Romania and the Republic of Moldova started the virtual trading competition Invest Quest. The competition is part of a broader project developed by the two institutions for promoting education in areas such as the economy, financial investments and entrepreneurship through training programs addressed mainly for the young people.

Romania needs a National Investment Day, which can change mentalities and destinies of millions of Romanians

It takes a national project to pull Romania out from the lowest financial literacy rate within EU member states

Lucian Anghel, BVB’s Chairman:

The "First Investment"program is just as necessary as the "First House" or the "First Car" programs

If we had invested in BVB shares 5 years ago, we would have doubled the investment by now

The Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB), the most important institution of the local capital market, launches the first of a kind initiative allowing Romanians to express support for enforcing a National Investment Day by signing an online petition on www.primainvestitie.ro, part of the most ambitious national project ever undertaken by a European stock exchange to increase financial literacy. The online petition will serve as a starting point for a legislative initiative to have a National Investment Day on May 15th.

On April 3rd, Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) announced and awarded 15 companies that have qualified into the final stage of the Bucharest Stock Exchange’s Made in Romania. Organized for the first time in the history of the Romanian capital market, Made in Romania is a unique concept aimed at identifying, promoting as well as providing a special mentorship program to Romanian companies with the biggest growth potential.

Over 500 people attended the 6th edition of the Individual Investors Forum, one of the benchmark events dedicated to retail investors and organized by the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB). Throughout last Saturday, March 18th, the participants who were interested in investments and the management of personal finances were presented the up-to-date situation of the capital market, took part in interactive sessions regarding behavioral finances and had the opportunity to attend seminars dedicated to either beginner or advanced investors.

Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) announces that the process of shortlisting 50 companies that will enter the last stage of Made in Romania project has ended. 25 companies were selected through the votes casted by the Nomination Committee Members while the additional 25 were chosen by the Bucharest Stock Exchange representatives.

Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) announces that it will expand the composition of the main index for the first time since its launch. The BVB Index Committee decided on the 3rd of March, 2017, during its quarterly meeting, to expand the number of companies included in the BET and BET-TR indices from 10 to 12.

The Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) has signed a partnership agreement with Radio Romania Actualitati (RRA) to improve on the information framework, support and promote financial literacy to a national audience. The agreement is part of BVB’s strategy to actively communicate investment and entrepreneurship topics to a broader audience.

Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) announces that following the big interest of the Romanian entrepreneurs in Made in Romania project, a first edition of the Bucharest Entrepreneurship Forum will be organized on April 4th at The Ark.

Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) together with the Rotary International District 2241 Romania and the Republic of Moldova signed a partnership agreement in which virtue the two institutions will contribute to the development of education in areas such as the economy, financial investments and entrepreneurship through training programs destined for, but not limited to, the young people.

Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) announces that is has received over 100 nominations in the “Made in Romania” project. Given the big interest in this project as the nominations are incoming from Romanian companies from all around the country, BVB decided to extend the period for submitting nominations at: www.bvbleague.ro until February 22nd, 19:00hrs.

Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) encourages issuers to hold meetings and conference calls with analysts and investors and has reviewed the rules based on which it decides to include listed companies on the Premium category of the AeRO market, which is dedicated to small and medium companies in Romania. The new guidelines will become effective starting from February 15, 2017.

The Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) acts as a bridge connecting the entrepreneurs who are looking for opportunities to finance their businesses and the investors who have the money the business owners are looking for. Listing a company on the stock exchange is a fundamental step in the life of any business aiming to acquire capital in order to grow. BVB hereby lists the fees required for a company to go public.

Over 400 representatives of the capital market, financial industry and entrepreneurs attended one of the most important events of the year for the capital market in Romania. Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) announced the winners of the Capital Market Awards at the Inauguration of the Stock Exchange Year 2017. This year, Bucharest Stock Exchange granted awards in nine categories, out of which three were voted by the public, who had cast about 3,500 votes.

Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) kicked off 2017 with new heights in January, being the best first month of the year in terms of value traded on the main market for shares since 2012. According to BVB data, the total trading value for equities went up by nearly 25% last month compared to December 2016 and 12% compared to the first month of 2016, to RON 710 million.

Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) together with Paravion, Romania’s largest online travel agency, launch "Leii BVB" on Thursday, January 26, 2017, a new project that aims to engage and reward individual investors who are actively trading on BVB. "Leii BVB" is a special project which will be carried out throughout the whole year 2017 as a manner of celebrating the 150th anniversary of Leu becoming the national currency of Romania.

Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) invites you to vote your favorite candidates for the 2016 Capital Market Awards in the following categories: 'Best Communication and Investor Relations in 2016 of a Listed Company', 'Best Educational Initiative in the Capital Market in 2016' and 'Best Broker for Retail in 2016'. The voting process for these three categories is open until January 29, 1PM, and can be cast at the following link: http://vot2017.bvb.ro/bvb

Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) continued its growth in December 2016, a month when the main BVB indices, BET and BET Total Return (BET-TR), followed an upward trend. The highest growth rate was registered by the BET-TR, which has gained almost 10% in one year and ended 2016 at a level of 8,751.95 points. The BET-TR index, which reflects the evolution of the most ten liquid shares listed on BVB included in the BET and dividends distributed to shareholders of these companies, increased in the last three years with almost 30%.

Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) has made it easier for intermediaries to operate on the stock market by allowing them to become indirect participants at Central Depositary. The move allows a BVB participant to choose how to perform post-trading operations. The new option related to the indirect participation at Central Depository will create the premises for an easier access to the BVB market for the potential new members, who will consider the membership of the BVB in order to trade on the Romanian capital market, while the post-trading services will be provided by the specialized institutions, such as the custodian agents.

Wood & Company Financial Services, a leading investment firm focused on European Emerging markets, will act as the Super Market Maker for the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) shares starting from the 3rd of January 2017. Wood & Company has been acting exclusively as Super Market Maker for other relevant shares listed on the stock exchange and has decided to become Market Maker for BVB shares to increase liquidity.